Obtain a copy of the History file. It is located in
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default (Windows)
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default (Mac)
Download the sqlite3 from https://www.sqlite.org/index.html
Copy the sqlite3 app into the same folder as the History file
Open a command prompt or terminal window
Change directory to the folder containing the History file and sqlite3
Run sqlite3
At the sqlite> prompt, type
.open history
.output history.txt
SELECT last_visit_time, datetime(last_visit_time / 1000000 – 11644473600, ‘unixepoch’, ‘localtime’),url,title FROM urls ORDER BY last_visit_time DESC;
.output
.exit
Open the history.txt file using Excel or text editor
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